Some different lenses of agency and their implications for alignment

TL;DR; These nine lenses on agency give you a wide range of tools to model and interpret agents. Each gives you lens-specific alignment methods and lens-specific risks to address.Epistemic status: Little here is new in a general sense; it's value lies in the synthesis and in providing a single point of reference.The concepts of agent and agency (derived from the Latin agere, to do or drive) are ubiquitous in AI safety, yet they do not pick out a clearly bounded set of things or properties and ar...